{"id":39776,"date":"2025-11-05T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39776\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:07:06","slug":"this-west-portal-thai-restaurant-is-busier-than-ever-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/39776\/","title":{"rendered":"This West Portal Thai Restaurant Is Busier Than Ever \u2014 For Good Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">San Francisco has a phenomenal Thai scene for every sort of diner: Chase Michelin stars at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinkhao.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kin Khao<\/a>, feast on 11 courses at the aptly named <a href=\"https:\/\/hedeleven.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hed 11<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/neighborhood\/1638\/west-portal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Portal<\/a>, a neighborhood with a recent rise in restaurant activity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/venue\/917041\/khao-tiew\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khao Tiew<\/a> shows San Franciscans a new class of Thai cuisine, one representing an understated but inventive level of cooking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Khao Tiew appears lantern-lit before you spot the big TV, showcasing a rotating series of random food videos. The kitchen roars with energy. Everything between you and its heat is a sea of people laughing, couples enjoying each other for what seems like the first time. Many restaurants seek out this energy, even paying marketing firms to focus group how to capture it. Khao Tiew achieves it effortlessly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Buffer in extra time to eat at Khao Tiew. Arrive when it opens at 4 p.m. and put your name down on the restaurant\u2019s kiosk; you can do it through Yelp\u2019s app, too. Your wait time is the ideal chance to play pool at the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/sf.eater.com\/venue\/55788\/philosopher-s-club\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philosopher\u2019s Club<\/a> around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco has a phenomenal Thai scene for every sort of diner: Chase Michelin stars at Kin Khao,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[5105,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-39776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-dining-report","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}